With the likes of Kiki Dee, Ralph McTell and The Incredible Spice Men on our doorstep this weekend don't make any plans until you've checked out our essential guide to what's on in and around Exeter:
COMEDY
Exeter Comedy Club Friday, 8.30pm, Exeter Corn Exchange Exeter Comedy Club returns with the first show of the autumn programme with a top quality line up including Devon's very own Charlie Baker, winner of the Mervyn Stutter Spirit of Edinburgh Fringe Award in 2009 and Paul McCaffery winner of both The London Paper and the Latitude Festival new act competitions in...
From this autumn, popular cultural hub and subterranean venue, The Bike Shed Theatre bar will host a new monthly live music night featuring some of the most exciting hotly tipped upcoming music acts from across the UK. The new night is curated by Devon based independent live music promoter Assemble.
Assemble is headed up by promoter Danielle Rose, previously Live Art Producer at Dartington Hall, and currently one of only 12 producers across the UK selected by the PRS Foundation for their New Music Plus UK programme. With events already taking place in Totnes and Plymouth, Assemble...
No stranger to coffee lovers in Exeter and beyond, Matthew (Matt) Whittaker trades on his vintage Dutch trike, the BikeCaffe, most days except Sundays. He is also known to have peddled his coffee at various festivals throughout the land. We caught up with him to find out a little more about why he loves the city of Exeter.
The Met Office has issued a yellow warning of further outbreaks of heavy, thundery rain for the South West during Thursday and Friday (3rd and 4th October). It has warned the public of the risk of flooding.
The Met Office reports: "Further outbreaks of heavy, thundery, rain will spread from the south during Thursday and overnight into Friday with the potential for some torrential downpours in places."
"The public should be aware of the risk of localised flooding."
The forecast for Thursday and Friday is as follows:
Exeter Cathedral has produced a resident’s card for the first time, offering people living in the city free entry to their Cathedral.
The card covers people living in postcodes EX1 to EX4. Forms will be sent in the post to eligible homes.
The Cathedral has to charge visitors to attempt to cover some of its £4,000 a day running costs, said the Cathedral’s managing director, Alison Davenport, but it is doing all its can to ensure that people in the city and around it can visit for free, as often as they like.
“This is the first time we have produced a resident’s card...
Charlotte Bronte’s classic novel of romance and mystery comes to Cygnet Theatre in a new vibrant production.
Orphaned Jane lives miserably with her Aunt, Mrs Reed until she is sent to Lowood, a place of fleeting moments of joy and friendship amid the privation and challenges of school life. Moving to Thornfield Hall as Governess. Jane meets the brooding Mr Rochester, her emotions blossom and marriage beckons. However, Rochester hides a secret which threatens to tear them apart.
‘Polly Teale’s adaptation (for Shared Experience) faithfully recreates the intense world of the...
A private dental centre in Exeter has welcomed the news that David Cameron is looking to offer more patients the chance to visit a GP in the evening or at weekends by piloting a scheme in nine areas of England, where surgeries will be able to bid for funding to open from 8am to 8pm seven days a week.
Based on the success of the first wave, other groups will be encouraged and enabled to open their doors at the evenings and weekends.
Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, said: "We live in a 24/7 society, and we need GPs to find new ways of working so they can offer appointments at...
Ahead of Mark Tyler's head shave for his adoption charity, Families for Children, fellow Patron Caroline Quentin offered to chop off the first lock!
Mark will be losing his hair this coming Friday 4 October, at 1pm in Princesshay.
Ally Colton, Fundraising & Publicity Co-ordinator said "this is a wonderful way for Mark to celebrate his 50th birthday - by raising funds for the adoption charity which successfully placed him."
More details about Mark's adoption story can be found on the charity's website www.familiesforchildren.org.uk
RUBY Modern Diner on Exeter's Queen Street is celebrating having won a Taste of the West 2013 Gold award. These prestigious awards celebrate excellence among food retailers, producers and hospitality businesses across the South West.
RUBY has also been nominated in the Best Takeaway category at the Food & Drink Devon Awards . These awards celebrate the very best our county has to offer across food production, retail, hospitality and service.
Erin Allgrove, Joint Managing Director of Modern Diners Ltd said, “Its great to see the provenance and quality of our food...
